Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11

He played half dozen tunes. Now, on
the violin, Mr.. Campion was q magicician.
For my own part, was carried away into
the seventh heaven from the very Begin
ming. First, he played, Farewell and
adieu to you, Spanish ladies'" which in
spired one with a fine feeling of national
pride and respect for seafaring Britons.
Next he played, "Oh, dear! what can the
matter be-" song just then quite new, at
least to Dorsetshire folk. This made us
just little fearful, and put us in the right
frame for EARLY in the morning, Just as
the sun was rising" Then he played
"Within mile of Edinburgh town." the
most delicious ditty / have ever heard,
then or since. After that he played Jacks
the lad," the song which they have since
made into the college Hornpipe." 1t
was then that Dan, who had been Ginning
in whenever he happened to know word
or two of the song, nodding his head, and
beating time with his pipe, laid it down,
and standing up, solemnly executed some
thing distantly resembling sailors horn
pipe on the floor. Will went on playing it,
with laugh in his eyes, faster aud faster,
till the enthusiasm spread to Jephthah and
Job, who looked at each other gultily, and
then softly arose and retired TO the ada
cent farm yard, where ] saw them in the
moonlight gravely dancing opposite each
other where the straw was driest Then
Will changed the tune, and played, sing
ing the words himself in lusty, tuneful
baritone, "While the raging seas did roar"
Dan caught the chorus and sang il with
him. Heayens what an evening We had!
Then ne sang Hearts of oak" Job and
Jephthah came back for this, and steadied
each other, as the song eDjoined, with
sympathetic shoulder thwacks heavy
enough to fell an OK.
Lastly my own turn came. The must
clan stopped, and his expression changed.
He looked thoughtfully for moment, and
then, still with his eyes fixed upon me,
began to play an air, the like of which /
had never heard or dreamed of; for it made
my heart to beat, my brain to reel, my
eyes to swim. Dan resumed his pipe, and
drank whole glass of brandy punch; he
did not care, apparently for this kind Of
music; Job and Jephthah stole away
noiselessly, and, / suppose, went to bed.
had strange and delightful sense that
this music was being played for myself
alone, that the musician took this way of
putting thoughts into my head which bad
never been there before, felt passionate
yearning for something unknown. |
was in some new place of light and
beauty inconceivable; my spirits rose with
kind of rapture-I was out Of the body,
floating in the air; there were no words in
which could clothe this new sensation.
l could have wept for very joy, but no
tears came. Presently it seemed as il my
feet were moving in cadence, and my whole
frame undulating with the waves of melo-
dy. l could bear it no longer, and should
have fallen, but that Dan caught me with
Steady, pretty steady! going to sleep
with the music in your ears?"
! was not going 10 sleep, indeed. But
Mr. Campion ceased playing, and told me
that it was German dance.
Nearly all that night lay awake, won
dering what new world was this into winch
l had got glimpse And when slept it
was to dream of strange, delicious things,
clothed in shapes new and delightful.
TO BE CONTINUED.